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The home is most commonly associated with its second owner, Jean-Noël Destréhan, who served briefly as the first United States Senator from Louisiana in 1812. He was influential in the transition of the Orleans Territory to statehood. The house is a unique example of a plantation home outliving the oil refinery that had been built around it.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Caspiana Plantation Store. / 31.770278; -93.096389. Caspiana Plantation Store is an American historic building and a former plantation store built in 1906, located at 1300 Texas Street in Natchitoches, Louisiana. [ 2][ 3] The store served as part of the crop-lien system, during the time of sharecropping which impacted the lives of many African ...
The French Creole raised-style [2] [3] main house, built in 1790, is an important architectural example in the state.The plantation has numerous outbuildings or "dependencies": a pigeonnier or dovecote, a plantation store, the only surviving French Creole barn in North America (ca. 1790), a detached kitchen, an overseer's house, a mule barn, and two slave dwellings.
Rouses opened its first store in Metairie in 1995 and was then the largest independent grocer in Louisiana. In 2003, Rouses opened a 54,000-square-foot (5,000 m 2 ) store in Covington . That store was followed by other St. Tammany Parish locations in Mandeville in 2005 and Slidell in 2006.
April 15, 1970 [1] Designated NHL. April 15, 1970 [2] Homeplace Plantation House, also known as Keller Homestead, is a National Historic Landmark on Louisiana Highway 18 in Hahnville, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Built 1787–91, it is one of the nation's finest examples of a French colonial raised cottage. It was declared a National Historic ...
Designated NHL. May 30, 1974 [ 2] The Parlange Plantation House ( French: Plantation Parlange) is a historic plantation house at Louisiana Highway 1 and Louisiana Highway 78 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. The plantation is a classic example of a large French Colonial plantation house in the United States. Its construction date is disputed.
Footage shot in Houma, Louisiana, on Wednesday captured images of the devastation caused by Francine, which made landfall in the Pelican State as a Category 2 hurricane.